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LEADERSHIP & COMMITTEES

A bold roadmap for our future requires bold leadership and many contributing voices.

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Co-Chairs

Elliott Cheu photo

Elliott Cheu

Associate Dean and Professor, College of Science

520-621-4090
echeu@email.arizona.edu

Lisa Ordóñez

Vice Dean and Professor, Eller College of Management

520-621-2238
lordonez@eller.arizona.edu

Executive Committee

Jon Dudas

Senior Vice President and Secretary of the University

520-626-6350
jondudas@email.arizona.edu

Jeff Goldberg

Acting Provost

520-621-6594
jgoldberg@arizona.edu

Gregg Goldman

Senior Vice President, Business Affairs & Chief Financial Officer

520-621-5977
ggoldman@email.arizona.edu

Lynn Nadel

Regents' Professor and Chair of the Faculty

520-621-7449
nadel@email.arizona.edu

Leigh Neumayer

Interim Senior Vice President, Health Sciences and Professor

520-626-4409
lneumayer@surgery.arizona.edu

Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

Dean, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA)

520-621-6751
pollockellwand@email.arizona.edu

Robert Robbins

President, University of Arizona

520-621-5511
president@email.arizona.edu

Jessica J. Summers

Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies

520-626-4669
jsummers@email.arizona.edu

Advisory Committee

Carol Barnes

Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute and Regents' Professor, Psychology

520-626-2616
carol@nsma.arizona.edu

Erika Barnes

Senior Associate Athletic Director, Administration - Major Gifts

520-621-0908
ebarnes@arizona.edu

Jennifer Barton

Director and Professor, BIO5 Institute

520-626-0314
barton@email.arizona.edu

Roberta Brinton

Director, Center for Innovation in Brain Science and Professor, College of Medicine

520-626-4621
rbrinton@email.arizona.edu

Shane Burgess

Vice President and Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

520-621-7621
sburgess@cals.arizona.edu

Vianney Careaga

Student Regent

602-229-2514
Vianney.Careaga@azregents.edu

Kimberly Andrews Espy

Senior Vice President for Research

520-621-3513
kespy@email.arizona.edu

Karen Francis-Begay

Assistant Vice President of Tribal Relations

520-626-9809
kfbegay@email.arizona.edu

Paulo Goes

Dean, Eller College and Professor, Management Information Systems

520-621-2125
pgoes@email.arizona.edu

Dave Heeke

Director of Athletics

520-621-4622
uofaad@arizona.edu

Doug Hockstad

Assistant Vice President, Tech Launch Arizona

520-626-1720
DouglasH@tla.arizona.edu

John Paul "JP" Jones III

Dean, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Professor, School of Geography & Development

520-621-1112
jpjones@email.arizona.edu

Sara Marie Knepper

Director - Academic Advising, College of Education

520-621-7865
sme@email.arizona.edu

Brew McKenna

Senior Advisor to the President

520-621-5511
brew@email.arizona.edu

Marc Miller

Dean, James E Rogers College of Law and Professor of Law

520-621-1498
marc.miller@law.arizona.edu

Francisco Moreno

Associate Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor, Psychiatry

520-626-5327
fmoreno@email.arizona.edu

Tony Proudfoot

Interim Senior Vice President for Marketing and Communications

520-621-8747
tproudfoot@email.arizona.edu

Marcia Rieke

Associate Department Head and Regents' Professor, Astronomy Department

520-621-2731
mrieke@as.arizona.edu

John-Paul Roczniak

President & CEO, UA Foundation and Vice President of Development

520-621-6131
jp.roczniak@uafoundation.org

Lisa Romero

Senior Director, Public Affairs and Communications, BIO5 Institute

520-626-9598
lisaromero@bio5.org

Joaquin Ruiz

Vice President for Innovation, Dean, College of Science and Professor, Geosciences

520-621-4090
jruiz@email.arizona.edu

Steve Schwartz

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

520-621-6363
sschwartz@email.arizona.edu

Laura Todd Johnson

Senior Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel

520-621-5150

Allison Vaillancourt

Vice President, Business Affairs and Human Resources

520-621-1684
vaillana@email.arizona.edu

Melissa Vito

Senior Vice President for Student Affairs, Enrollment and Strategic Initiatives

520-621-0963
mmvito@email.arizona.edu

Kendal Washington White

Dean of Students and Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs

520-621-7057
kwashing@email.arizona.edu

Kelli Wheeler

Administrative Associate, UAHS Human Resources

520-626-5593
kwheeler@email.arizona.edu

Karen Williams

VP, Information Strategy & University Libraries

520-621-5079
karenwilliams@email.arizona.edu

Michael Worobey

Department Head and Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

520-626-3456
worobey@email.arizona.edu

Initiative Design Team Leaders

During Phase 1, we received a tremendous amount of input into the strategic plan from thousands of Wildcats through town halls, website responses, class visits, and focus groups involving students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members. From this input, certain non-exhaustive priority areas have consistently emerged. As we transition into phase 2, we are asking design teams to help us “dive deeper” into these emerging priority areas over the next month to help design preliminary initiatives for the strategic plan. We look forward to bringing these preliminary initiatives back to the entire Wildcat community for feedback and guidance. As always, please continue to reach out to Elliott Cheu and Lisa Ordóñez with any and all input as we continue to think boldly about the UA’s future.

Alumni Engagement

Melinda Burke, Jenny Flynn, Danielle Bishop, Andrea Miller, Tony Proudfoot, James Francis, Nancy Yaeli

Curriculum and Pedagogy

Paul Blowers, Gail Burd, Daisy Pitkin, Keith Swisher, Jonathan Tullis, Francesca Lopez, Jill Koyama, Melissa Fitch

Data Science

Bonnie Hurwitz, Nirav Merchant, Sudha Ram, Mihai Surdeanu, Yves Lussier, Helen Zhang, Clay Morrison

Diversity & Inclusion

Helena Rodrigues and the Diversity Coordinating Council

Environment and Climate

Andrew Comrie, Diana Liverman, Kim Ogden, Xubin Zeng, Ben Champion, Joellen Russell, David Breshears, Aletheia Ida

Global

Suzanne Panferov, David Pietz, Brent White, Harmony Defazio, Javier Duran

Health

Carol Barnes, Stephen Gilliland, Ken Ramos, Akinlolu Ojo, Dan Derksen, Evan Unger

Humanities and Arts 

Bryan Carter, Joseph Farbrook, Ken McAllister, David Taylor, Betsy Schauer, Lisanne Skyler, Colin Blakely, Brooks Jeffery

Innovation/Entrepreneurship

David Allen, Bruce Wright, Remy Arteaga, Joaquin Ruiz, Marv Slepian, Doug Hockstad

Operations

Barbara Bryson, Steve Schwartz, Joel Hauff, Allison Vaillancourt, Lisa Rulney, Tony DeFrancesco, Brian Ten Eyck

Sensors

Jennifer Barton, Laird Close, Nasser Peyghambarian, Diego Martin, Wolfgang Fink, Alfred McEwen, Esther Sternberg

Space Sciences

Buell Jannuzi, Marcia Rieke, Tim Swindle, Olivier Guyon, Jared Males, Vishnu Reddy, Brian Ten Eyck

Student Outcomes

Angela Baldasare, Vincent Del Casino, Cynthia Demetriou, Anne Pagel, Kasey Urquidez, Thomas Murray, Kimberly Sierra-Cajas, Kendal Washington White

Letter from the Co-Chairs

"We are humbled that President Robbins asked us to serve as co-chairs of the University of Arizona strategic plan process..."

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